On This Day – 9 March

1842 – the first performance of Verdi’s Nabucco

1844 – the first performance of Verdi’s Ernarni

1951 – the first performance of Honneger’s Symphony 5 ‘Di tre re’

Born OTD in 1737 Josef Mysliveček

Born OTD in 1910 Samuel Barber

Born OTD in 1950 Howard Shelley